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Friday, September 6, 2013

Greater Albania advocate wants "Ulcinj and Preševo"

Source: Dan, Tanjug

PODGORICA
-- The so-called "Natural Albania platform" would have Montenegro's
Ulcinj declared "a free town located between Montenegro and Albania."

A view of Ulcinj (Wikimedia)

At the same time, the expansionist projects wishes to incorporate the area around the town of Preševo, in southern Serbia.
This
transpires from an interview given by Albanian politician Koco Danaj,
who heads a list dubbed "Natural Albania" and plans to, by the end of
November, submit a petition with one million signatures to "western
governments" - in a bid to gain their support for the project.

Danaj
spoke for Podgorica's Dan newspaper to say that such ideas would not
bring a new war to the Balkans - but would instead stabilize the region
by "righting a historical wrong toward the Albanian people."

According
to him, the essence of the platform is to unify Kosovo and Albania,
Albania and eastern Macedonia, to create "a free region of Chameria"
between Greece and Albania, and to annex the Preševo valley to Albania.

As for Ulcinj - Danaj said this was "never a Montenegrin town," and explained:

"The
Berlin Congress in 1878 did not decide to give Ulcinj to Montenegro.
That happened a few years later. Also, documents from the archives of
the Turkish state show that Montenegro was given Ulcinj on a 100-year
concession. Therefore, our demand is completely legitimate."

The
London Conference in 1912, by which the independence of Albania was
declared, "damaged it in its natural borders," this Albanian politician
believes.

He also stated that Montenegrin politicians should help Albania in achieving the Natural Albania project.

"We
must not forget that Albanian votes played a key role in reaching the
55 percent number in Montenegro's independence referendum. At the time,
Albania encouraged Albanians in Montenegro to vote in the referendum. In
the meantime, the Montenegrin government is not even recognizing the
right of Albanians to the Tuzi municipality," Danaj was quoted as
saying.

The Greek government
ordered all the police departments in the regions bordering Albania not
to block the movement of Albanian citizens, whose passports have
problems with toponyms.

The order was delivered just
hours after the meeting of the Greek Minister of Defence; Nikos Dendias
had in Athens, with the new appointed Minister of Interior in the new
government, Saimir Tahiri.

During the one hour-long meeting, the
main issue was the topographical problem and Tahiri asked not to block
the movement of citizens in the border until the final resolution of the
issue of toponyms from the foreign ministries of the two countries.

One
other topic they discussed was the cooperation between them, as well as
the fast exchange of police information on both sides of the border,
destroying criminal gangs and blocking traffic in narcotics.

Mr.
Tahiri demanded the establishment of an information exchange centre in
major border points linking the two countries, in order to avoid the
problems of immigrants and Albanian citizens, to ensure freedom of
movement, dignity of citizens and the respect for principle of
reciprocity.

Meanwhile, sources from the meeting told to “Top
Channel” that the Greek authorities asked for the Albanian help to
arrest the remaining part of the gang of Albanian prisoners who escaped
from prison of Trikalla months ago, where according to them, the number
one fugitive Ilir Kupa and his collaborators are still free, escaping
justice.

Greek party suspects that the members of this gang are
hiding in Albania, and asked to intensify their operations to capture
them.

On his part, Mr. Tahiri was convinced that the ministry that he will lead will show zero tolerance in fighting organized crime.

They agreed on frequent communication and immediate solution to the problems that concern police of both countries.

The
USS San Antonio, an amphibious transport dock ship, arrived at the port
of Haifa on Wednesday for what the US Navy called a "routine port
visit."
Captain Randell Dykes said the visit was a "well deserved
break for sailors and marines, and for many is the first time they have
visited Israel.

"If
you have been here, you know what a great country Israel is," Dykes
said, adding "I know our sailors and marines will have a great time.
They certainly deserve it after all the hard work they've put in on this
deployment."
According to the US Navy, tours were to be offered
to the sailors and marines and they would have the opportunity to
explore Haifa "and to experience the rich history and culture of
Israel."
On Monday it was reported that the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Nimitz
and other ships in its strike group were heading west toward the Red
Sea to help support a limited US strike on Syria, if needed.
The
same report said that the US Navy has also sent the USS San Antonio to
the eastern Mediterranean, diverting it from a previously scheduled
mission that would have taken it farther west.
A defense official
said the San Antonio had been asked to serve as an afloat forward
staging base, which could provide a temporary base for special
operations forces, if they were needed. It could also assist with
evacuations.
A spokesman for the ship declined comment, referring
questions to the Navy. Lieutenant Adam Cole, spokesman for the Navy's
European headquarters, declined to discuss any specific plans for the
San Antonio or future ship movements.

There
was never much hope that the 20 most influential national leaders in
the world meeting in the Russian town of St. Petersburg on Sept 5-6
would occasion a thaw in the icy relations between the American and
Russian presidents and some sort of accord for stopping the bloodshed in
Syria.

In his opening statement, Thursday, Sept. 5, Vladimir
Putin announced an open-ended discussion would start over a working
dinner and go on into the small hours of Friday. The Russian leader was
clearly setting the stage for a showdown with the US president, having
loaded the dice in Moscow’s favor with the opposition of most of the
Asian and European leaders to US military intervention in Syria. The
only exceptions were French President Francois Hollande and Canadian
Prime Minister Stephen Harper.
Tense eyes were trained on the G20
venue as Thursday night wore on to see the upshot of this weighty
conference, which started out with the two parties solidly entrenched in
their positions – the US president determined to exercise military
force against the Assad regime’s use of chemical weapons against its
people, and the Russian president equally determined to oppose it.
But
even if Putin manages to isolate Obama diplomatically by carrying a
majority motion against US military intervention, he will still have to
face up to the failure of his policy to stop the United States carrying
out its second military offensive against an Arab nation in two years,
after the 2011 Libya campaign.As for Obama, the longer a decision to
go forward in Syria drags out, the greater the pressure by lawmakers in
Congress, whose votes he needs, and military imperatives, to embark on a
broader operation against Syria than the narrow missile assault he
first contemplated.
Had he wished to stick to his original plan,
he should have instantly fired off a number of Tomahawks at the Syrian
forces as soon as they gassed the eastern outskirts of Damascus on Aug.
21. Instead, he let ten days go by before suddenly deciding on Aug. 31,
to put the operation on ice for congressional authorization.
Had
he acted expeditiously, the whole issue of US military intervention in
Syria would have been behind him by the time he reached the summit in
Russia.The American assault will now have to be expanded and revised
to cover widely-dispersed targets distributed across large areas in
view of the following developments:1. The Syrian government has
scattered the chemical units responsible for the atrocity, along with
its chemical stocks in dozens of hideouts across the country to minimize
damage.
2. The recommendation by Chairman of the Joint US Chiefs
of Staff Gen. Martin Dempsey, cited by President Obama to justify the
delay in the offensive – it could take place “tomorrow, in a week or a
month” – hasn’t held water.The chief of US naval operations, Adm.
Jonathan Greenert, commented Thursday that the four US destroyers off
the coast of Syria are “fully ready” for “a vast spectrum of operations,
including launching Tomahawk cruise missiles at targets in Syria and
protecting themselves in the event of retaliation.”And indeed, the
Senate Armed Forces committee, in backing US military force in Syria,
gave the president up to 90 days to finish the job.3. The certainty
voiced by some US intelligence sources that they can locate the hideouts
of Syrian chemical units and weapons overstates the capabilities of
even the most sophisticated spy technology at their disposal.4. Not
just the Russian leader, but Syria’s Bashar Assad and Iran’s Ayatollah
Ali Khamenei, have bought enough time to set up military, intelligence
and political ambushes for the Americans, and will be ready to pounce
when the US operation goes forward.As the G20 summiteers took their
seats in St. Petersburg, three Russian warships passed through the
Bosporus in their way to the Mediterranean.debkafile’s military sources identitied them as the SSV-201 intelligence ship Priazovye and two landing craft, the Minsk and the Novocherkassk, which carry 200 marines and 10 amphibious tanks.
All three leaders have issued a constant stream of threats to deter Washington from striking Syria:a) They could supply Syria with highly-advanced arms capable of catching US forces by surprise;
b)
Russia and China could transfer advanced cyber warfare measures to
Damascus via Tehran, which Iranian cyber experts could operate in Syria
and Lebanon.c) The Russian president has indicated that if the
Americans attack Syria, he might sell Iran super-weapons on the premise
that the strike on Syria would be the precursor to a US attack on Iran’s
nuclear program.
5. The basic presumption in Washington and
Jerusalem at the outset of the US plan to use military force in Syria
last month was that Hizballah would stay out of it. In the interim, the
Lebanese Shiite militia has begun mobilizing for defending Syria and for
cross-border reprisals against Israel from Syria and Lebanon.Thursday
night, Iran’s National Security Council inner group held a secret
meeting in Khamenei’s inner sanctum on the ramifications of the
forthcoming US action against Syria.debkafile’s
Iranian sources report that Revolutionary Guards commanders spoke out
in favor of activating the mutual defense treaty binding Iran and
Syria.President Hassan Rouhani objected. In his view, Tehran must
continue to issue vague and general statements without showing its hand
on military action against the US. He warned that a vast American
military and naval force was piling up in the region and Iran must
beware of provoking a military response in which it would be quickly
bested.
Khamenei did not wait for the G20 to reach conclusions. He
issued a public statement saying: “We believe that the Americans are
committing a folly and mistake in Syria and [they] will accordingly take
the blow and definitely suffer.”

Syria has Albanian struggle against the regime of President Bashar al-Assad, but that they are not part of the Albanian rebels, but the radical fundamentalist groups fighting to topple President Assad and to establish an Islamic state

Syria is located in the center of attention of the international community and all expect intervention to end the bloodshed of more than 30 months had killed hundreds of thousands of people.

In Albania, a small community lives Syrians, one of them is Alja Noha, a young Syrian girl who attends university in Albania and decided to speak to "Wake Up"in Top Channel TV. She said that at the start of the Syrian revolution, which starts early in the protests against the regime of President Bashar al-Assad, the Syrian community worldwide has requested international assistance.

"Wake Up" provided a hotline with Ahmad Trad, former Syrian army pilot, but now part of the anti-Assad fighters of the Free Syrian Army, fighting in the outskirts of Idlebit. He said there are radical groups fighting in Syria, but that does not have the major share in dispute.

Trad acknowledged that Syria has Albanian struggle against the regime of President Bashar al-Assad, but that they are not part of the Albanian rebels, but the radical fundamentalist groups fighting to topple President Assad and to establish an Islamic state, where, as said the analyst Ilir Kulla also invited to "Wake Up" to be the center of Damascus Caliphate as one thousand years before.

Have long circulated in the news media Albanians fighting against Assad in Syria. It is believed that there are over 500 and among them there were also victims. But now comes confirmation that they are involved in these Islamic fundamentalist groups that have a different final order from the Free Syria Army.

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MOSCOW,
September 4 (RIA Novosti) – The Russian Foreign Ministry on Wednesday
urged the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to analyze risks of a
potential US military operation in Syria, saying such a strike would
threaten nuclear security throughout the Middle East.
Ministry spokesman Alexander Lukashevich said in a statement that
such an operation in Syria “might affect targets sensitive in terms of
nuclear security and nuclear non-proliferation,” including the Miniature
Neutron Source Reactor (MNSR) near Damascus.
He said “the consequences will be catastrophic” if the MNSR is hit by
a US missile. Potential risks entail “possible contamination of
adjacent territories with highly enriched uranium and radioactive decay
products and the de-facto impossibility of ensuring control and safety
of nuclear material at this object,” he said.
“In order to prevent events from taking a negative turn, we strongly
urge the IAEA secretariat to promptly react to the situation and to
present member states with an analysis of risks related to airstrikes on
the MNSR and other objects in Syria,” the statement reads.

The Vityaz air defense system guarantees the detection of enemy
ballistic and long-range cruise missiles at blastoff and is currently
being deployed along the entire Russian border; while the Popeye ballistic cruise missile is the type used by Israel during its Dolphin submarine July 5 attack
on an arms depot in the Syrian port city of Latakia that targeted a
contingent of 50 Russian-made Yakhont P-800 anti-ship missiles; and the
Arleigh Burke class of guided missile destroyers are the United States
Navy's first class of destroyer built around the Aegis Combat System and
the SPY-1D multi-function phased array radar making them some of the most feared warships in the world.

As to the exact method the US Navy
utilized in destroying these two ballistic cruise missiles this MoD
report does not speculate upon, but a review of an Australian Air Force
technical report [Technical Report APA-TR-2007-0402] clearly shows it can be done, but only at great expense and using First-World technical skills and 21st Century technology.

With Syrian President Bashar Assad warning that any military strike against his country would spark
an uncontrollable regional war and spread “chaos and extremism,” this
MoD report says, the Israeli motivation for launching these ballistic
cruise missiles earlier on Tuesday remains “highly suspect,” a situation
made even more dangerous as all International treaties require advanced
notification prior to conducting any tests of this type.

This MoD report further states that the launching of these ballistic
cruise missiles could have been a test of Russian military capability to
detect these types of launches and Kremlin resolve to notify the entire
world immediately upon their detection.

In the former the Russian military proved its ability to immediately
detect these types of launches, and in the latter the Kremlin, indeed,
showed it would not hide from the world any knowledge the West was
attacking Syria.

Though not explicitly stated in this MoD report, but speculated upon,
Russian defense intelligence experts contributing to it note that Israel
may have been attempting to start this war by an unprovoked attack upon
Syria that would be blamed on the Americans and whose effect would be
the starting of at least a wide-ranging regional war, or at its worst,
World War III.

As to why Israel would want to start a major war lies in its “demographic time bomb”
of a population that is pitting the Jewish states main factions
(Zionist-Haredi-Arab) against each other with mounting fears of civil
war growing by the day.

Confirmation of chemical weapons being delivered to Syrian rebels by the Saudis were confirmed by Turkey this past May when
seven terrorists from the al-Qaeda-linked Al Nusrah Front were captured
in anti terrorist operations in Adana, Turkey, and two kilos (4,5
pounds) of sarin gas were found in their apartments.

Further confirmation of Syrian rebels using chemical weapons were detailed by the United Nations whose investigators proved their use against the Syrian army at least 5 times by al-Qaeda-linked terrorists this past year.

Even the latest chemical weapons attack against Syrian civilians has been put squarely at the door of Saudi Arabia, as previously reported a few days ago, Syrian rebels in the Damascus suburb of Ghouta admitted to Associated Press journalist Dale Gavlak
that they were responsible for the 21 August chemical weapons incident
which Western powers have blamed on Bashar Al-Assad’s forces, revealing
that the casualties were the result of an accident caused by rebels mishandling chemical weapons provided to them by Saudi Arabia.

Even though all of the major mainstream propaganda media organs
are still refusing to tell the people the truth about what happened in
Ghouta, the same cannot be said of the respected Fairness & Accuracy
In Reporting (FAIR) organization who when analyzing the Obama regimes
evidence for war against Syria against the Associated Press report
written by Gavlak, found the latter to be more credible.- Sorcha Faal - WhatDoesItMean

Israel’s
missile defense organization (IMDO) and the U.S. Missile Defense Agency
(MDA) completed today a successful flight test of the Silver Sparrow,
the latest, most advanced version of the Sparrow target missile family.
The test, conducted at the Israeli test range over the Eastern
Mediterranean Sea was the first test flight of the new missile.
The
missile was launched from an airborne platform on 9:15, after an ascent
the missile entered the trajectory, in according with the test plan.
Through its flight the Silver Sparrow was tracked by the Arrow Weapon
System’s Super Green Pine radar, which transferred the information to
the Citron Tree Battle Management Control System. According to the IMOD
announcement, all the elements of the system performed according to
their operational configuration.
The Silver Sparrow developed by
RAFAEL is an advanced version of the Sparrow air-launched ballistic
target missile’. The Sparrow targets have a modular warhead section
carrying different payloads such as inert, high explosive or water. The
27.5 (8.39 mw) long missile weighs over three tons and is designed to
simulate Shihab 3 class missiles (Iranian ballistic missiles with
1,500-2,000 km range). The new target is an essential segment in the
testing of the Arrow-3 exo-atmospheric interceptor.
The Silver
Sparrow uses a single stage solid rocket propellant, and shares a common
reentry vehicle with the mid-range Blue Sparrow. The Silver Sparrow is
also considered as a candidate for air-launching of RAFAEL’s future
LiteSat micro-satellite, providing Operationally Responsive Space
capability supporting ad-hoc requirement for satellite imagery.
IMDO
and the U.S. MDA officials conducted the flight test. The main
contractor for the integration and development of the sparrow is Rafael
end the main contractor of the arrow weapon system is MLM of the
aerospace industries (IAI) in conjunction with Boeing.
The
test was conducted at a time of high tension in the region, with
Russian and NATO naval forces massing off the Syrian coast. An earlier
report by Moscow has indicated the Russian sensors have detected two
ballistic missiles launched from the same region of the Mediterranean
sea. However, Russian sources in Damascus were quick to affirm that
there was no evidence of a missile strike on Syria. The announcement
revealed the fact that the Russians are providing early warning to the
Syrians, about potentially threatening activities over the East
Mediterranean.

Albania: UK Helicopter Search for Missing Migrants

TIRANA, Albania September 3, 2013 (AP)

Albania's military says British helicopters have joined a search for 27
migrants reported missing while trying to cross illegally by speedboat
to nearby Italy.
The British forces were taking part in an exercise in the area and on
Tuesday joined Albanian and Italian coast guard vessels in the search in
the Strait of Otranto, which separates the two countries.
The Albanian army said authorities received an emergency call from the
migrants late Monday, adding that Albanians and migrants from several
Middle Eastern countries were believed to be on board.
Albania is a transit point for illegal immigration to Italy, typically
after migrants have traveled across Turkey and neighboring Greece.

Prime Minister Sali
Berisha complimented the future prime-minister Rama’s attitude to
demolish any illegal construction, however, according to Mr. Berisha,
the purpose of Rama is not legal control over the territory, but taking
the constitutional powers of local government to disband the urban plans
in favor of a new clientele, that, according to the Prime Minister, is
building illegally on the coast and will rollback personal policy for 20
% of corruptive building.

"In this revanche towards the
territory, the highlight is on his statement that he will demolish all
the illegal buildings. We compliment him if he will do such a thing. But
the painter will not stop only with the illegal buildings. He will also
demolish the legal houses. It is an unprecedented act, an unprecedented
statement. We categorically reject the demolition of legal buildings.
The government can demolish any object, but against the rules. What lies
behind? It’s the urban plans erasure. The coastal plan must be
canceled, because the pair Rama-Kokëdhima have built a whole castle near
30 meters from the sea, in an area where is not to legal to build,”
said Berisha.Prime Minister Sali Berisha, who has closely monitored the
two-day conference, arranged by the Socialist Party for urban
development and future economic model, gave a gloomy prediction about
the way that the new government will manage the finances and the economy
of the country.“We say to the citizens that we have the government for
one more week, but I guarantee that one thing that makes me proud is
that we managed to prevent the crisis. I know that you are in difficulty
and it does not mean that we prevented your difficulties. You receive
remittances from abroad and this is translated into strong economic
difficulties for you, but the crisis, recession is terrible and I wish
for Albania not to fall,” Berisha said.Expressing his negative
assessment of the lack of economic knowledge in the economic field of
the next Prime Minister and some members of the new cabinet, Prime
Minister Berisha expressed his concern that the new government will not
follow the suggestions of international experts that prevention of
recession is done through increasing investments and lowering the taxes.
"The second act of this drama warns that this team will rapidly plunge
the country in recession and this is ominous news that this government
brings. This is not Edi Rama, but Edi Drama. This reaction of mine has
nothing to do with a personal attitude to him, but with a big problem
that you will suffer. The crisis is a very big punishment if it affects
the Albanians. I understand their dissatisfactions, but they are nothing
compared the pains of recession,” Berisha said.

The Greek Warship is in the Eastern Mediterranean within a few
miles of the U.S. destroyer Arleigh Burke, from which will be launched
dozens of Tomahawk targets of Syria, if given the "green light" U.S.
President Barack Obama poses additional issues for the Greek government.In
the "hot zone" of Eastern Mediterranean due to the concentration of large naval
forces of the U.S. and its allies, but also even by the Russians, in view
developments probably a blow against Syria by the USA is a ship of
Greek Navy . This is the gunboat ' mighty ' patrolling integrated in the power UNIFIL.The
gunboat would be replaced by the gunboats type Super Vita «
Krystallidis " which has already sailed from the Naval Base of Salamis
in the Eastern Mediterranean. For a few hours that is, Greece will have on the area two warships . And we all hope the government does not decide the U.S. hit Syria once it becomes " target ' the ships in area.Sources
of Greek Pentagon said how if the ship start from the U.S. and allies
military operations against Syria and the site of action near UNIFIL in
Lebanon coincides with the business then the vessels will be withdrawn
by either the UN or of the same states. The same subject would also ordered Missile ' Krystallidis . "The Greek ship is in the Eastern Mediterranean within a few
miles of the U.S. destroyer Arleigh Burke, from which will be launched
dozens of Tomahawk targets of Syria, if given the "green light" U.S.
President Barack Obama poses additional issues for the Greek government.Especially
when through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Defence, Greece is
committed to " willing allies ," even with the provision of facilities .There is also the fear of retaliation , as has warned Syria if accepted blow. And
the eastern Mediterranean patrols currently the " mighty
" Krystallidis " is within the range of coastal missile developed by
the status of Bashar al Assad is determined to launch.

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BRUSSELS,
September 3 (RIA Novosti) – NATO has no information about the launch of
"ballistic targets" in the Mediterranean and is looking into those
reports, an official from the alliance told RIA Novosti Tuesday.
Russia’s Defense Ministry said earlier on Tuesday its early warning
system had detected the launch of two "ballistic targets" in the
Mediterranean.
The Pentagon, the UK and French Defense Ministries and the Israel
Army command have all told RIA Novosti they have no information about
such launches.
“The Defense Ministry cannot confirm these media reports. This is all I can say,” a French Defense Ministry spokesman said.
The launch was detected at 10:16 Moscow time (06:16 GMT) by a radar
in the southern Russian city of Armavir, a Defense Ministry spokesman
said. The targets’ trajectories ran from the central to the eastern
Mediterranean, the spokesman said.
Russia's Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu reported the launch to President Vladimir Putin, the spokesman told Russian journalists.
The Defense Ministry's press service was not immediately available for further comment.
The Russian Embassy in the Syrian capital Damascus said it did not have any information about the launch.

MOSCOW,
September 3 (RIA Novosti) – The launch of two "ballistic targets" has
been detected in the Mediterranean, Russia’s Defense Ministry said
Tuesday citing its ballistic missile early warning system.
The launch was detected at 10:16 Moscow time (06:16 GMT) by a radar
in the southern Russian city of Armavir, a Defense Ministry spokesman
said. The targets’ trajectories ran from the central to the eastern
Mediterranean, the spokesman said.
A diplomatic source in the Syrian capital, Damascus, told RIA Novosti that the targets fell into the sea.
The Russian Embassy in Damascus said it did not have any information
about the launch, and the streets and residents of the Syrian capital
appeared calm, a RIA Novosti correspondent reported.
Russia's Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu reported the launch to President Vladimir Putin, the spokesman told Russian journalists.
The Defense Ministry's press service was not immediately available for further comment.

Monday, September 2, 2013

Deputy
Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Evangelos Venizelos met at the
Foreign Ministry today, Monday, 2 September, with Ali Ahmeti, the
President of the D.U.I party, which is the largest Albanian party in
FYROM and participates in the country’s governing coalition. During the
meeting, bilateral relations and issues concerning FYROM’s Euroatlantic
perspective were discussed.

Protest of Golden Dawn at the office of Kakavia under slogans for Northern Epirus

Rally held yesterday at noon in the Greek Albanian border in Kakavia by hundreds of members of the Golden Dawn. They had attended the established events to end the Albanian guerrilla with the defeat of the communists in line.

Led by very known Christos Pappas, presence of King Constantine and Barbarousis hundreds of Golden Dawns across Epirus, Aetolia and Achaia closing the border of Kakavia.The reason for the protest was dynamic the last events in Premeti , but the wave of terrorism of paramilitary Albanian unleashed last month in Himara region on the occasion of the memorial service of Aristotelis Goumas , indicating that they do not forget the Northern Epirs Question.

For about one hour the Greek Nationalists closed the border shouting slogans in support of Northern Epirus, predominantly "There's up there in Premeti flag will raise again by Greeks" .

Then Christos Pappas took the floor where among other things he said: "We come here today to artificial boundaries in order to demonstrate our struggle for the liberation of Northern Epirus. Albania afraid the Golden Dawn because it is the only party that has been in the program the fight for the Greeks of Northern Epirus.The Greek government gives NATO allies bases in Souda and Kalamata . What must however ask internationally is the implementation of the Protocol of Corfu under the Autonomy of Northern Epirus and this will be the first step in the liberation of Greek this territory. I invite you to turn to look to northern Epirus and sing our national anthem so loudly to hear our brothers in Saranda, in Himara and Premeti. "

The protest ended with everyone chanting at attention the National Anthem

Sunday, September 1, 2013

Debt of Sisyphus: Greek economy’s coma is a misguided political experiment

Austerity is destroying the free part of the Greek economy, leaving government more dysfunctional than ever. Worse news: it will need yet another bailout...

Seasoned economic observers remain shocked by recent events. Greece will soon need another bailout. That’s not remotely surprising. What shocks is that there remains some semblance of an economy to bail out after 6 years of depression.

Greece is bust, the political system broken, the nation dysfunctional. Tax still isn’t being collected. Government remains a bloated legacy of political patronage. Workers left in the private sector are desperately clinging to the hope their business can survive the insanity of a Euro made in Germany applied to the Mediterranean.

Margaret Thatcher wisely noted that when politics and economics clash, you bet on the economics to triumph and the government to collapse. A sound rule; it held true when she helped accelerate the suicidal downfall of the Argentine military junta and, of course, the end of the Warsaw Pact. The tax-free bureaucrats of Brussels in the Berlaymont bubble have convinced themselves it can’t happen to them. Anybody reminded of the Ceausescu family preparing for Christmas 1989? The euro may have survived to date but Thatcher’s Law invariably proves correct.

Deluded eurozone leaders continue to prematurely claim that the crisis is over. Greece is stuck between a rock and a hard place. News of the bailout requirement comes just as Chancellor Merkel attempts to bore German voters into re-electing her on September 22nd. However, another Greek bailout plays badly with the German electorate, especially in the wealthy west where citizens paid to integrate (poorly) the ‘Ossis” and remain reluctant to subsidize generations of spendthrift Mediterranean incompetence. Then again Merkel’s latest remarks warn against further haircuts without explicitly ruling them out, so a third CDU term may mean debt relief for the Greeks regardless of her voters’ opposition.

Meanwhile the Greeks aren’t exactly contrite: Finance Minister Yannis Stournaras has noted there will be no more austerity in return for another loan. Then again the Greeks have so far this year met one key term of their loans, running a primary surplus. The problem is a primary surplus doesn’t include interest accruing and when you owe as much as Greece does, the end result is that by next year they will probably owe as much as they did before Chancellor Merkel reluctantly permitted a small ‘haircut’ in October 2011. Therefore Stournaras may seek debt relief instead. The Greeks are keen to note a ‘mere’ 10 billion euros ($13.6 billion) will be required on top of the 240 billion euros advanced to the 11.3 million Greeks so far.

Euro coma
...Remember that traditionally bailouts involve suggesting a relatively minor figure then reach a number significantly above the original mooted level…

The EU is so desperate to hold their Ponzi currency scheme together they are now considering using core EU budget funds to bailout Greece. Britain and Sweden will therefore pay for the Eurofiasco they never endorsed.

Hellenic austerity has been a disaster because imposing restraint upon a dysfunctional state is a bit like expecting a walrus to make a good President so long as it wears a necktie. Greeks are, at best, haphazard in paying taxes. The bloated public sector exacerbates the need for reform but stymies the ability of austerity to solve anything by mainly hurting those whose support can be most easily cut: the poor, ill or young.

Greece lies in the abyss of economic damnation. Idiot corrupt politicians spent all the money and the current generation (having largely moved their own wealth offshore) lack the skills to reform the state. Pragmatic observers advocated default years ago but the Greek government caved in to EU pressure, stubbornly sticking with the euro.

True, national bankruptcy and the chaos of a new currency is no picnic but an economy kept in a coma by a political dogma driven by a misguided political experiment is not remotely worth living in for a month, let alone 6 years.

The euro remains on life support. Likewise Greece is living the myth of Sisyphus, sentenced for eternity to pushing a stone up a hill only for it to roll back down as the peak nears. Sooner or later this madness must end. It won’t be pretty but at least a rupture will allow a return to sustainable growth as opposed to a squandered generation.

The statements, views and opinions expressed in this column are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of RT.

A new government has a lot to live up to
Aug 31st 2013 |From the print edition
Renaissance man: Edi Rama

EDI RAMA won election in June offering a “renaissance”. Albanians will have to wait until parliament convenes on September 9th, but hopes for the former mayor of Tirana, the capital, and his Socialist Party are already high—a “new Camelot” says a foreign official. The new government is mostly young. Six women are in the cabinet: one is defence minister. Several ministers, such as Erion Veliaj, who ran a successful anti-corruption group, have backgrounds outside mainstream politics.

Albanians were ready for a change from the era of Sali Berisha, a towering figure who straddled politics for two decades. Though it is one of the few European countries not to have experienced a recession in recent years, worries about crime and corruption have helped to slow Albania’s integration into the European Union: after three years of failed attempts, it may gain candidate status in December. Mr Veliaj says the government’s aim is to reassert the state’s authority: illegal construction is rampant, as are backhanders in the health-care and education systems. He wants to re-examine big public procurement deals. He also talks of stamping out massive tax evasion and says that the “unfair” flat tax is to be replaced by a system of tiered rates.

Some election promises will be hard to fulfil. How, asks Albert Rakipi, head of the Albanian Institute for International Studies, can the government possibly create the 300,000 jobs promised during the campaign? Gerald Knaus of the European Stability Initiative, a think-tank, says that Albania has plenty of potential but has lacked vision. For much of the past decade it lived off a construction boom fuelled by remittances. Now it needs to encourage expansion in its shoe and textile industry, which already provides 29% of exports, and look to other small countries such as Estonia for inspiration. Its people are young, he notes, yet only 42% of the working-age population actually work.

Mr Rama will need to move fast. Party grandees are disgruntled: they expected to be rewarded with jobs after the election. They will play along for now, as will Ilir Meta, his coalition partner and, in reality, co-prime minister, some say. His socialist splinter party brought down the previous government. But if either lot senses weakness, knives will come out. Camelot, but with Albanian characteristics.

The Panepirotic Federation of America vehemently condemns the brutal destruction by Albanian authorities on August 26 of a Greek Orthodox Church in the Chimara region of the former Communist nation that once prohibited all forms of religious worship. The Church of St. Athanasius in the town of Drymades, known in Albanian as Dhermi, was completely destroyed by government agents acting on the authority of Albania’s Interior Ministry.

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Himara Community of USA, Addresses Himarra Property Issues with US State Department / Ambassador

The Honorable John F. Kerry Secretary of State U.S. Department of State Dear Mr. Secretary: We are writing to inform you of issues affecting United States citizens who have vested interests in the municipality of Himarra, Albania, and to express our concern about their long outstanding and unresolved problems regarding property rights. Over 1500 US citizens of Himarrioton descent are disenfranchised of their rights to the ownership of their family properties which were confiscated in 1945 by the communist regime. They have been attempting to claim their family properties since the end of the communist period without success due to the laws and policies of the Albanian government which a) fail to address ownership rights of pre-1945 landowners, b) fail to address the rights of owners who were forced to emigrate to the United States for economic or political reasons, and c) fail to address the rights of those with dual citizenship who have attempted to claim their properties as Albanian citizens.

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Officially: Omonoia, In Albania over 300.000 Greeks declared

30 % or 86,000, are declared electronically and this process includes 85 % of the members of the Greek minority Vlora Prefecture is the mostly populated by Greeks, there are about 90. 000 Greeks. TIRANA - Democratic Union of the Greek Ethnic Minority, Omonoia publishes the results of the census of members of the Ethnic Greek Community, organized by it structures. The Prime Census, was the decision of the General Council of the organization as members argued for exclusion of the Greek minority in the months Census October 2011, organized by the Institute of Statistics .

The history of elections of the Albanian dictator, to terrorize the people of Himara

A special Edition by SManalysis December 2, 1945: The Himariotes, abstaining from communist referendum, as happens usually for Himara the Albanian historians, never wrote this tragic history. Nikos Koutoulas, who boldly told the special communist court: "I'm Greek . I do not know Albanian, get me a interpret!" Still now, Albania never hold free politic elections, including Himara Municipality

Albanian Writer Raises Storm in Kosovo

Kosovo officials have rounded on Albanian writer Fatos Lubonja for saying that the political elites in both countries turned a blind eye to the crimes of the Kosovo Liberation Army, KLA. Besar Likmeta BIRN Tirana Albanian writer Fatos Lubonja In the article published in the May edition of the magazine Sudosteuropa, Lubonja focused on the reaction of Albania’s political class to the acquittal of the former KLA commander and Kosovo Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj by the Hague Tribunal. Lubonja wrote that following Haradinaj’s release, the elite in Pristina and Tirana celebrated him as a hero, despite having enough information that the charges brought by prosecutors in the Hague were correct.

As long as human rights and civil liberties are violated in Himara Region primarily property, Greec

Himara Associations: Athens to block the status of Albania, if Tirana, does not solve the property issue Two associations based in Himara, "The Himara Community" and "Sea Coastal Association" have asked in a statement distributed to the media this afternoon that Greece "should block the candidate status for Albania" if Tirana, will not solve the problems of Human Rights and particularly the issue of the properties in Himara Region. The statement takes into consideration the visit Tirana following day of E.Venizelos the Greek Deputy Prime Minister also heads the Presidency of the European :

Albania minorities object to territorial division

Albania's civil society is calling on officials to diffuse tensions and protect minorities from discrimination and potential violence as a result of the decision to scrap the existing municipalities and create a new territorial administration. The government reduced the 384 local government units to 65, effectively creating entirely Albanian-majority municipalities. Greek, Macedonian and other minority representatives said the government's move violates their rights and international norms.

Poll: Albania, the most racist country in Europe

An international survey data from the World Value Survey collected and processed by the Washington Post reveals that Albania is the most racist country in Europe and worldwide more racists. The survey attempts to make a connection between economic development and being tolerant inside a society with ethnic crashes.. Thus, the most tolerant countries in the world are the Nordic countries, Great Britain and some of its former colonies, the United States, Canada and Australia. Countries with high tolerance are also in Latin America, where Venezuela exception.

Fatos Lobonja: Albania needs formatting not to rebirth

Fatos Lobonja, in an interview for the program "PULS" the KohaVision in Kosovo, there appeared criticism of developments in Albania. According Lubonja Albanians as a society still can not be consolidated. The reasons, according to him, are corrupt Albanian political elites on all sides, inside and abroad. He said they did not thirst for power leaves organize and move forward. Edi Rama's arrival at the head of government, according Lubonja, will not change the image of Albania, because Rama is associated with the oligarchs and organized crime. " He should answer that elite and non-citizens of Albania ", Lobonja estimates.

Nicholas Gage: Athens to give soon the Greek citizenship for thousand north epiriotes

World Council delegation of Epirus Abroad, meeting with the Ministry of Interior for the vote of northern epiriotes and the resolve the pension problem The visit of Nicholas Gage, is considering as the latest diplomatic effort of USA lobbing, for implementation of the "Protocol of Corfu" agreement, between Albania and Greece, based on the ulterior escalation in Balkan region. The Delegation of the World Council of Foreign Relation of Epirus (PSIE) headed by the Honorary President Nicolas Gkatzogianni, had a working meeting with the Greek Interior minister Stylianidis and v/ minister Syrigos.

Himariotes, lobbying in USA, for Autonomy

A group of people of Himara, with American citizenship, are lobbying to the US Congress and the State Department, that the Himara Region, receive the right for autonomy, according to international historical right to his self-determination. Proposed to merge all associations operating in USA, Greece and Albania, to be united in a single purpose: Autonomous Himara, Movements in the Balkans geopolitical, Mitrovica case, cutting pension from Greece, scarce public investment, robbery and illegal registration of property, etc., have raised a great concern, as never in the recent relationship of Himara, Albanian and Greek state relationship.

Pyrros Dimas, meeting with the Greek Minister of Labour, for problem of pensions to the Northern Ep

- Initiative of MP of PASOK, Pyrros Dimas for preparing and drafting a legislative proposal in collaboration with representatives of the Northern Epirus organizations. - The Minister agreed on the need to find a solution and urged the Member to develop concrete proposals, and that after consultation with the Secretary of the New Republic, Manolis Kefaloyiannis will be submitted jointly to the Minister of Finance.

"Kakome Case" again to the Albanian Tribunals

The Greek Community continues to "constant war" with the Albanian government to protect property. The apathy of Athens, to respond to the robbery of the properties in just the time, that OSCE, under the process of the registration of property in Ionian Coast, from European taxpayers, without any trasparence, is favoring according to Albanian law, alienation of property, of the Greek community , with the false documents.

Berisha: albanophobia threatens inter region

Berisha: "We must accept that they are the only people who live in 5 states. A nation that is unjustly divided into 5 states, a nation that wants to look to a common future. But again albanophobia is still in action " Albanian Prime Minister for the second time, threatening Greece, claiming that Albanians in Greece, should join the Albanian state.

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Pappas: "Northern Epirus is a region that holds arbitrary from Albania, as recognized by the great powers, the Protocol of Corfu. The Law of War against Albania, can not remove from Papoulias nor Greek parliament, but the Greek army is ready to liberate the Northern Epirus, again

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After a life threatening message to Archbishop Janullatos

42 Orthodox clergy against census and Red & Black Alliance: Janullatos has not afraid of death 42 Tirana archdiocese Orthodox clergy have reacted with a joint statement in defense of Anastasios Yannoulatos. Their attitude comes after strong reactions against the Red & Black Alliance, for Archbishop and after a census that sees Orthodox in third place in terms of religion in the country.

Albania: 100 years, Berisha plays 'great Albania' trump card

In Tirana Albanian leaders, tensions with Macedonia 28 November, 10:49 (ANSAmed) - TIRANA, NOVEMBER 28 - Albania's black and red national flag with a double-headed eagle is waving across the country which is celebrating today its 100th anniversary of independence in a tense political climate. The centre-right Premier Sali Berisha has been calling for days for an ethnic-national unification of all Albanians living in different Balkan states, in efforts to revive a strong nationalism which is rejected by Albania's opposition.

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CONTINUES THE DEBATE IN WASHINGTON D.C. FOR THE PROPERTY RIGHTS OF AMERICAN CITIZENS FROM NORTHERN

According to the Greek organisation of Albania estimates there are thousands of Greek American citizens from Northern Epirus (Southern Albania) which is refering the Journalist Lambros Papantoniou, asking the Spokesman of State Department for the rights of American citizens with Greek origin to take their properties in Southern Albania. Papantoniou is refereeing a Memo between Albanian State and USA about the civil rights especially for the properties of American citizens who are interested to take them according to Albanian Constitution and laws the properties of family generation. This is the second debate of the veteran Journalist for Balkan Issues in State Department Lambros Papantoiou who accuses over all the Sali Berisha Regim in Albania supported by the President Bush.

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Avramopoulos`s speach during NATO meeting

Greece threatens Albania blocking the integration process after Berisha's statements Greek Foreign Minister Dimitris Avramopoulos, has expressed his concern at the NATO ministerial meeting about rising tide of nationalism in Albania and premature declarations of the government. In a press release the Greek Foreign Ministry said that "the growth of nationalism and populism in some of our neighboring countries is a source of great concern."

The U.S. talk of "change of borders in the Balkans"

Message-warning sent to Albania by the U.S. representative to the State Department, which in a statement said that any change of borders in the Balkans "would be counterproductive and destabilizing," but the issue is that for the first time put the U.S. even and negative mood on any change of borders in the Balkans ...

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THE BIG CHANGE IN PERIVOLO, DRYMADES, HIMARA REGION

Dhermi, (Drymades, Himara Region) between natural beauty and destruction Look at those videos, before in 2010, everything natural and in 2012 the differences, the big changes how are divided Mafia plots, see whose investments are shown, with the camera of a sportsman parachute, in Long Beach "Perivolo" in Dhrymades, the Himara Region. Look at how this summer 2012, the Concessions of Mafia provided by The Himara Counsil Municipality and the Government of Albania, have become a reality. The Sand Beach Drymades, is transformed in the sidewalks and kiosks. See how they are transformed Dhermi, in a few years, in an administrative center, disrupting also balance the religious and ethnic composition of himariotes.

Robert Elsie: If I would live in Albania, it would be crazy. It is the same as in Ottoman times

After known albanolog Milan Shufla, Robert Elsie is the best conteproranean albanian albanolog in the World During his intereweu on "Top Channely TV, Robert Elsie, on his first interview on TV. expresed his story about Albanian and Albanian state in 100 years. An interesting tale scholar known for his work difficulties in view of the Albanian language. Elsie, who knows Albanians for years, amounts to a chilling conclusion. He says he will not ever live in Albania, as it will go mad. "I can not live here. It's a little wild for me, the relationships between people are a bit wild. I know that is just a facade that inside have good spirit, but have a rabies in human relations. You know how to protect yourself here, and here I am like a rabbit, he can not defend myself. I come here with pleasure, but do not believe they can afford to come and live here forever. There is much frustration of everyday life. Life is too short and I do not have time to bump into obstacles, only to achieve something, when in another country and get away and then live my life, "said Elsie to Albanian. And while Enver Hoxha's Albania as compared with that of Sali Berisha, adds: "There is something that depends only on the party, it's more the attitude of the people. So to get something going, you have to know someone in the Ministry, to drink coffee with, then drink coffee again next week with even a third time, and then he connects with the person that you are interested . That is the same as in Ottoman times, not like a normal country. ".

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Greece, is going to Plan B: grant for 600 thousand Greek citizenship, at the Consulates

Failure of the Census in Albania, apparently, has forced Athens, put in place, going to Plan B to its foreign policy, grant citizenship to all Hellenic Community of Northern Epirus (Greek passports) through three Greek consulates in Albania. According to “The Albanian newspaper Gazeta Shqiptare”, in a statement issued by the Greek Consul in Argjirokaster, Nikolaos Kotroxois, will begin soon, giving the Greek passports to Albanian citizens of Greek descent, who have applied for years. The decision is taken, after Athens, has used all diplomatic sources to have to Tirana, the same wavelength, particularly in geopolitical matters, particularly Kosovo. In his statement, the Greek Foreign Minister Stavros Dimas, noted, that Tirana, continues to show towards Greece, feeling not sincere cooperation, while simultaneously calling for the right to self-determination of the Greek community in Albania.

BERISHA: GREATER ALBANIA, WE LOST TERRITORIES

he Albanian Prime Minister held a meeting with Prishtina University students, in which he argued why he is against the unification of Albania with Kosovo and why both countries would lose, if borders would be changed. “The vital interest of the Albanians is to preserve the current borders, and the Albanians should not accept, at any cost, to lose a single square meter of the land they are entitled to. Another redraw of the borders would mark undeserved losses of the Albanian territories. We must be patient, free, and should not undertake any action that threatens territorial losses. Every generation has to make its duty, and this generation made it”, Berisha declared.

Dimas:"The Greek ethnic Community in Albania has the right of free of charge self-determination"

The reliability of the results of population census in Albania, in terms of minority groups, directly challenging the foreign minister Stavros Dimas, diaminyontas same time that the Respect for human and minority rights is … crucial criterion for the progress of the accession method of our neighbor. In a letter sent to the Home in response to a question from a Member of LA.OS K. Aivaliotis, Dimas says that “the foreign ministry has closely followed all the developments surrounding the census in Albania, even though produced timely plays, both bilateral and European level to make sure the integrity process and unimpeded registration of members of the Greek National Minority, and each location of residence of such ». As outlined, the “Selection of the representatives of the main minority groups, including the Greek National Minority, invite their members to abstain in protest not guaranteed to respect the right of free of charge self-determination, showed a significant deficit of trust minority in the Albanian state, which ought to itself the Albanian government to address priority ».

The Constitutional Court Decision on December 1, the Latter abolished the term Ethnic certificate of Its Citizens. In the Decision, panels argues why the notion of "nationality" is incompatible with the constitution When Its state charter law does not provid a clear definition of Its meaning. In Assessing the Court, "nationality" as defined concept without, unlike Other components of civil law does not Create a link that 'translates the Mutual rights and duties of Natural Persons and state.

While the total population in Himara Municipality, does not exceed 12 thousand inhabitants, a source from the prosecution of Vlora, shows that the problems of ownership at the squirrels region have reached the 7500 court proceedings and special investigations, which marks a world record, by how a country like Albania, could not manage the right of ownership, in one of the areas attacked by the Albanian mafia and international. However, the U.S. Department Report for 2004 on human rights in Albania, states clearly that in the Himara Municipality, the community lands and the Orthodox Church, was robbed by a Courts with false documents, supported by the Office of Propetry Registration in Albania.

Arben Puto: Albania has declared war against Greece first

In his book "The Italian Greek War", Arben Puto, well known historian of the era of dictatorship in Albania, writes that: "In a unanimous decision of the Albanian Parliament on July 15, 1940, was ratified, the Italian Fascist royal decree, which declared all war allies France and Britain, including the USA and Greece. So need to Albanians, to be aware that Greece was not declared war Albania, but Albania, with military battalions that attacked Greece on 28 October 1940 ".

WB returns to Ionian Riviera residence reconstruction

Another World Bank project is being executed with the help of the Albanian authorities for the reconstruction of the residences in Albania’s southern coastline. The 625.000 USD project aims to protect and promote the values of the Albanian national architecture in the Southern part of the country, in order to prevent destruction and abandonment of the traditional houses. “Shqip” newspapers says that the Ministry of Public Works is the WB partner in the “Roofs and Facades” project. The implementation of the program has started in the villages classified as participators: Dhermi i Vjeter, Qeparo i Vjeter, Ilias, Vuno, Himare e Vjeter, Piqeras, Nivice and Luksht. The World Bank will finance 70% of the restauration cost, with a maximum of 7000 USD, while the program “Accommodation and Breakfast” will finance 50 of the restoration cost, with a maximum of 5,000 USD. The program “Roofs and Facades” aims to restore 72 houses in 18 months. 20 of them will adopt with the conditions of modern life, in the framework of the program “Accommodation and Breakfast”.

In Albania, at 20 years post-dictatorship, 8 thousands murders, for the issue of property

The shocking data, are given by the Prosecutor General, to the Albanian press Shocking facts which, in the wake of Albania rank Civil War, the high level of killings, including the year 1997 Through the Albanian press, Attorney General, has published shocking facts about the increasing number of murders in Albania, especially for issues of ownership. Clic on photo ....

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First step to Greater Albania: Kosovo Opens First Highway Section

A 38 kilometre-tranche of the road, which will eventually cross the country from the Albanian to Serbian border, was opened on Saturday. The first section, which runs from Vermica on the Albanian border to close to the town of Suhareka, cost 330 million euro. Senior Kosovo and Albania government officials were present at the inauguration ceremony. In a speech, Kosovo’s President Atifete Jahjaga said that the "highway has the role of linking nations and countries". "It is our link with important European corridors. Our coordinated policy will make us a free and equal members of the European Union," she added. Named the "Ibrahim Rugova Highway", after Kosovo's most famous president, the road connects with Albania's first highway, which was also built by the Turkish-American consortium Bechtel-Enka.

George Goro: Registration of properties on the southern coast of Albania faces difficulties

The process of registration of property in southern coastal areas of Albania is getting quite difficult. Mayor George Himara Goro says it has so far only completed the registration of houses and land but not land. Problems with documentation and the implementation of the Land Law difficult, according to him, residents in this process.

The Monument of Independence of Albania, is in hassle

PDIU Cam Community Party, the Socialist Party's local leader in Vlora, and "Red & Black Alliance", are making a nationalistic competition, the Monument of Independence and the Albanian national flag. Few days ago, Prime Minister Sali Berisha, said the establishment of a new monument to the independence of Albania in Tirana, implying, dismiss the historical tradition of Albanian independence in Vlora.

Himarrioton Society of America

The Himarriotans of America, motivated by the love of Himarra, the land of their native origin, and dedicated to the noblest ideals of their forfathers, have established this organization which aspires to the cultivation and preservation of Himarriotic culture in America, to making a positive difference in the lives of its members, and to promoting the rights and interests of the Himarriotans in Himarra, through the realization of patriotic, charitable, philanthropic, educational and cultural endeavors.

Opinion in Kosovo: "Socialists in Albania, are filo Greek"

The Chairman of the Opposition in Albania, Edi Rama, accused by the press in Kosovo that "he is with filo Greek sentiments" If, Sali Berisha, Albania's current prime minister, is expected both in Macedonia and Kosovo, as president of the Albanian nation, this has not happened with the chairman of the opposition in Albania, Edi Rama. During a recent visit to Kosovo, Edi Rama is unpopular, the fact that the perception of public opinion in Kosovo, is that the south, is the area close to Greece, but especially Rama and the Socialist Party, was accused of holding a position filo Greek, against the interests of Greater Albania.